July2
Taking the dead to therapy
I took my father to therapy last week. He’s been dead since 1995, around 16 years now, but I took him along anyway. I packed up his letters, objects from the different Jacks, and took them along. I laid them out on the floor and picked up each in turn, me and my alters addressing each father that shared that one body of his.
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June22
Donna Williams aged 9
I’ve always had a strong reaction to images of Barry Humphries.
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June13
Iris by Donna Williams
This month’s artwork is titled ‘
Iris’.
It is 26 cm x 42 cm, acrylic on paper. Some of the irises look like dancers, butterflies, nudes, fairies. It’s a whimsical painting, full of movement. It is gently joyous. I hope you enjoy the painting. You can see it and others in my online
gallery.
Warmly,
Donna Williams *)
http://www.donnawilliams.net
June13
Donna Williams aged 8 with GTS convertible
In 1970, when I was 7 years old, my family had moved from the small rented house into a big two story house in Preston. In went a built in swimming pool, well supplied bar, snooker table, chandeliers, mirror walls, and filled with antiques and racks of guns displayed openly on the walls. There was a revolver in the drawer of the front dresser just inside the front door.
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June7
Donna Williams aged 4
Those who grow up meaning deaf (verbal agnosia) often have exceptionally good use of peripheral vision. Those with a form of meaning blindness called Simultagnosia in which one sees the part and loses the whole often employ peripheral vision as a means of filtering out the level of incoming information they’d otherwise get through rods in the front of the eyes as a means of reducing sensory flooding, allowing the brain more time to process what’s left in a similar way that some therapeutic tinted lenses do too. A recent
study showed peripheral vision is also more highly developed among those who deaf from an early age.
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May13
Terrain by Donna Williams
This month’s artwork is titled ‘Terrain’.
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May12
Schizotypal by Donna Williams
and Dissociative Disorders.
Schizotypal Personality Disorder is also deemed to be along the same spectrum as Schizophrenia at the extreme end and
Schizoid Personality Disorder at the more mild end. So it may be that Schizophrenia is not as much the antithesis of Autism as we had imagined.
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May3
Sense of purpose by Donna Williams
Dissociation, alters, co-consciousness and PTSD nightmares can be extremely hard for children with DID to understand and those with awareness of any of their alters or experiencing co-consciousness or PTSD nightmares may easily conclude they are haunted or that their alters are ghosts or imaginary friends even if they had no conscious role in creating them and just ‘discovered’ they were already in existence
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April23
Donna Williams aged 2 months
What is the usual
development of eye contact in babies? When do they begin to use two eyes together, develop depth perception enough to reach for objects and understand where their body is in space? When and how do babies develop hand-eye co-ordination, develop visual memory as part of fine motor skills development and self feeding? What are the visual perceptual milestones toddlers go through to develop visualisation skills?
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April23
Disclosure by Donna Williams
There’s surely some out there that are healthy but being someone who can’t remember the name of one from another, I am designed for over all impressions and rather poor at brand loyalty.
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